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Show SNAKE RIVER VALLEY. Homes lor the Poor A Biff Cana! Pltmty of Water trame iu Auundaooe. Ca.mi on Snake Rivbr, Idaho, Dooembor 27lb, 1879. Editors Herald : PorhopE.it may he well to call attention at-tention to tho great amount of excellent excel-lent arable land lying open to preemption pre-emption and homes toad in this aection ol country. There are about 200,000 uores of food land in this locality well situated tor irrigation, and an abundance abund-ance of water in Snake River, easily accessible. Small grain does well here; oats growu here last season weigh thirty-eight to forty pounds per bushel. Wood and timber are alio easily accessible by floating down Snako River, tho bank of which stream are lined for miles with ootton- wood groves. The Snake River Water Company is now constructing a oanal for irrigating irri-gating this country. It will be a large one, the head gate being sufficient suffi-cient to admit, 'if nacenaary, a stream thirteen feet deep and twenty wide. The oanal, with its bronchos, will be about forty miles in length. Tho engineering en-gineering work is in charge of Mr. James H. Martiueau, civil and hy draulio engineer, and the earth and rock work is contracted for by M. D. and M. M. Hammond, ol Providence, Cache County, Utah. They have quite a force working with pick and barrow, notwithstanding the severity of tho season and depth of snow, which ia aboutjeight inohes now; but it has been deeper. Game is abundant. Oue of Mr. Hammond's men killed Q'ght fine doer in two dayp. Christmas morning morn-ing a herd of eight deer passed near our oamp, and in the evening a herd of over twenty elk appeared ou the mountain Bide over tho river, of which herd a man killed nine the following day, and four deer. Foxes, red and cross, are also found about here, and jack rabbits in great number. I do not praiae this region to induce in-duce people to leave their present home, but people who have no (arms would do well to come here and secure land for a home of their own, instead of working at odd joba and living from "hand to mouth," aa the common com-mon (unfortunately, too common) aying it, or cultivating other people's land on shares, X, |